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She could get none of the boys she had liked in high school to fall in love with her. But when she became a multi-billionaire in another country, a high school reunion brought her back home and face to face with all the guys that she never had a chance to be with back in her highschool days. Now, it was Xena who was getting chased by her crushes.
"Bang!" "Bang!" "Bang!" Three gunshot sounds echoed in the shooting range.
"Boss, you are amazing. You hit the target three times right in the chest." A guy wearing a black suit said to a lady in a white fit outfit.
She swung her brown hair from her front to her back, then her pink lip curved into a deep smile as her black eyes widened.
All the guys in the shooting range had their eyes off their shooting target and focused on her. She could see the lust in their eyes and their yearning for her, and she loved every bit of attention.
"Excuse me, pretty. May I know your name?" A husky guy asked.
She slyly giggled as she drew near him. When their bodies were close enough, her fingers pressed against his chest before she tiptoed towards his ear.
"It's Xena." She whispered, then let out a soft breeze into his ears.
"Well, mine is Derrie." He said with a seductive voice.
"Boss, your phone is ringing." The man in the black suit announced.
"Carlez, how many times did I tell you not to disturb me when I am talking to a handsome dude?" Xena told her bodyguard.
"Countless times, boss. I am sorry, but this person keeps calling." Carlez said.
Xena reluctantly showed her palm, and Cralez rested the phone in it. She frowned when she saw the name on the screen.
"Why is this lousy human being calling me?" Xena mumbled before answering the call.
"Xenn... What's up, boo? Are you still nerdy like when you were in high school? Gosh, it's been so many years since graduation. Plus, you have disappeared from the surface of the earth like you never existed. It's not like anyone noticed you in high school anyway. Did you find a rock to crawl in and hide your face from the outside world?"
Xena rolled her eyes at every word the caller had said. She was amazed at how years had passed, and still, some people continue to remain the same.
"Who am I speaking with?" Xena asked before softly giggling since she knew who was speaking.
"Wow! How dare you forget about me? It's Sophie. The former leader of the cheerleading team from your former high school." Sophie's angry voice flowed into Xena's ears.
"Oh, that Sophie. What do you want?" Xena asked.
The line became silent for a while, and Xena knew that Sophie was enraged by her reply.
"Haha. Who knew that a few years out of high school would make you arrogant? Anyway, I am hosting a one-month class reunion on my daddy's island, and the others thought that it wouldn't feel the same if everyone didn't show up, including you. So, you got invited too."
Xena could hear the arrogance in Sophie's voice, but she was not the same Xena from her high school days, so it did not bother her.
"When and where?" Xena asked with a cunning smile on her face.
"Uh, you are willing to show your face?" Sophie's shocked voice echoed from the phone.
"Why not? You and everyone is going to be there, so why can't I show up?"
"Well, your attitude has changed a bit, but I am sure your hideous face is still the same."
"Sophie, please keep those insults for yourself and send me the address to your father island."
"Whatever, I will message it to you. Just know that all your high school crushes will be there, and since they were all not interested in you before. I am sure that they won't be since I guess that you are still poor and nerdy as before, but good luck, honey."
Xena ended the call with a pleasing smile on her face, then handed the phone over to Cralez.
"Oh, I am looking forward to that." Xena mumbled out of excitement.
"Sweetheart, where were we before that call disturbed our conversation?" Derrie asked.
Xena's mood had changed, and she did not look gentle anymore, but her expression has become aloof.
"I don't have time to continue our discussion. Cralez, let's go. We have some shopping to do." Xena coldly replied.
Derrie grabbed Xena's hand as she was about to walk away. He then pulled her towards him, causing her to slam into his body.
"Come on, baby. I am sure you can make time for me." Derrie rudely said with his hand tightly around Xena's waist.
Xena frowned at him before forcefully hitting her knee between his leg, which caused him to drop to his knee. She then punched him hard against his nose.
Everyone at the shooting range stared in shock and amusement at Xena and Derrie.
"You bitch!" Derrie screamed as blood rolled from his nose.
"That's what you get for messing with a badass boss." Xena stated with a faint smile before walking away with her bodyguard beside her.
As she and Cralez entered the hallway, Xena stopped walking and turned to stare at her bodyguard.
"Boss, what's wrong?" Cralez worriedly inquired when he saw the anger in Xena's eyes.
"Why did I hire you?" Xena asked.
"To protect you, boss."
"Did you protect me in there?"
Cralez bent his head in shame, knowing that he had disappointed Xena again.
"No, boss." Cralez whispered.
"Why?" Xena asked.
"I am sorry, boss. You are such a skillful fighter, and that makes me sometimes forget that I have to defend you. I know that you don't need me to protect you because you are a better fighter than me, so that causes me to forget my job most of the time."
"Don't let it happen again. I hired you because I don't want to get my hands bloody all the time."
"Yes, boss. I promise from today that I will never allow anyone to take advantage of you."
Xena's phone buzzed, and she stared at the screen and saw that she had a message from Sophie.
"I may not need your promise now." Xena said with a pleasing smile after reading the text.
"Why is that, boss." Cralez worriedly asked, thinking that he was about to get fired.
"Because where I am going for the next month, no one can know my status, that's why I can't take you or the other guys with me." Xena explained.
"Why is that, boss?"
"I am traveling back home, and I don't want to ruin the fun."
Cralez looked confused, but he knew that Xena was a smart woman, and if she said that she did not need him for one month, then who was him to argue.
The moment Xena walked out the door, her fifty bodyguards assembled in a protective position around her.
"Welcome back, boss!" They unitedly announced.
Xena gave them a brief smile before entering into the driver's seat of her Bugatti Divo. She then speedily drove ahead of her bodyguards' cars.
Born as the only wolfless person in her pack, Blake's life had been nothing but misery and humiliation, and she never expected things to change. But one innocent accident would change the course of her life forever when she met an Alpha in the male bathroom of her school. Now that her path had crossed with his, her life as a wolfless hybrid would now become the life of a powerful rogue wolf, and when she thought her fate with Nero couldn't get any more twisted, she is faced with the dilemma of choosing or killing him. *I always knew Blake and I were an impossible force from the moment we met again, and I don't get why fate keeps trying to merge us… Only chaos can blossom from what we are, and I want to shield her from all of it. But after everything that has happened so far, I realized that the universe wouldn't allow that to happen, so I will give in to its intention until everything burns into ash for us.
Rake disappeared from Ava's life the day of their anniversary celebration, and after years had passed, he resurfaced at her door asking for her help with a bullet wound on his side. He then left early the next morning and Ava thought he was gone for good, until an incident got her caught up in the other side of Rake's life that he had tried so hard to keep her out of, and now it was Rake's duty to protect Ava from the danger that she got involved in because of him.
Everyone who should have been there for Li Na betrayed her. After she died, a soul transferred from the twenty-first century and sowed revenge on her behalf.
Carmen was in one-sided love, and she didn't know that until she got married to Liam, her high school crush. After getting married to him, his attitude towards her changed. But Carmen stayed in the marriage and endured his inappropriate behavior towards her. However, everything changed when she met Dax, and she later found out that he was her husband's best friend. When Liam realized that there was more to Carmen and Dax's friendship, he knew for sure that he wanted Carmen all to himself.
She fell deeply in love with him, and later found out that he might be the monster who murdered her parents in cold blood. However, a vow she made to him stopped her from killing him the first time, but what will she do when she meets him again?
She thought she was the love of his life, and he became the love of her life that fateful day she had seen him at the pack's party. Selene Grace was only a replica of Alpha Leo's real mate, and when he spotted her, Leo immediately claimed her as his Luna in order to suppress the rumors of him being mateless. Being unable to conceive turns Selene's marriage into a nightmare, and as if that wasn't enough, Alpha Leo finally reunites with his long time lover and mate, rejecting a pregnant Selene as a result. 5 years later, Selene, a now successful doctor, receives an invitation to the moon shadow pack in order to rid the pack of a deadly disease which has struck it. Will Selene return back to the pack which had caused her so much pain, and what would she do when she realizes that she is mated to the Alpha who had betrayed her in the past?
On their wedding night, Rogelio wrapped his fingers around Marian's neck and spat at her, "Congratulations! From now on, you live in hell!" The reason for his wrath was that he believed she was responsible for the death of his elder brother. So, he married her but refused to touch her, determined to make her suffer for the rest of her pitiful life! However, due to an unforeseen accident, Marian was forced to sleep with Rogelio in order to save him, and she ended up getting pregnant. Concealing her pregnancy, Marian lived cautiously under Rogelio's watchful eyes. He hated her and relentlessly humiliated her, yet he would never allow anyone else to lay a finger on her— "Mr. Bailey, your wife got into a fight with someone!" Rogelio secretly took action, eliminating that person completely. "Sir, your wife claimed that all of your family's wealth belongs to her!" Rogelio quietly transferred all the shares to her. Unaware of all this, Marian only wanted to escape, but Rogelio pulled her into his warm embrace, whispering, "Mrs. Bailey, where do you intend to go with our unborn child?"
Iris grew from an orphaned child to the adopted daughter of the Stewart family at age ten, finding warmth in her nominal uncle Vincent's kindness. Seven years later, she became his secret lover. When Vincent's engagement was announced, gossip spread about the notorious playboy CEO finally settling down. But only Iris knew the extent of his cold, two-faced nature. Iris fell for Vincent and, through tears, begged, "Marry me," only to be met with his frosty refusal. Defeated, she accepted a lawyer's proposal, sparking public excitement. Then, on her wedding day, Vincent pleaded desperately, "Don't marry him…"
As a simple assistant, messaging the CEO in the dead of night to request shares of adult films was a bold move. Bethany, unsurprisingly, didn't receive any films. However, the CEO responded that, while he had no films to share, he could offer a live demonstration. After a night filled with passion, Bethany was certain she'd lose her job. But instead, her boss proposed, "Marry me. Please consider it." "Mr. Bates, you're kidding me, right?"
"There will be no falling in love, we will only act as a loving couple when we are in public, we will share a room to make it believable, but no intimacy, touching is off-limits. We'll only have sex once a month, and that's solely to produce an heir. You won't interfere in my business, and I won't interfere in yours. You will be my wife in every sense and you will not be involved with any other man," he said, arrogance seeping from every word. I watch his mouth move, I'm not ready to fall in love with any man, especially not one as arrogant and egoistic as him. I can handle acting as a loving couple, and as for intimacy once a month. I can agree to that just to satisfy my sexual cravings with no strings attached. "Where can I sign?" I asked since I had nothing to lose. *** Nadine's wedding dreams turned to nightmares when she caught her sister and fiancé cheating! With a secret recording, she's ready for revenge. But then mysterious billionaire Logan West offers a deal: A Contract Marriage to take down her ex's empire. But what Nadine doesn't know is her life is getting complicated as she takes her chance to get revenge or risks everything for a chance at love?"
Belinda thought after divorce, they would part ways for good - he could live his life on his own terms, while she could indulge in the rest of hers. However, fate had other plans in store. "My darling, I was wrong. Would you please come back to me?" The man, whom she once loved deeply, lowered his once proud head humbly. "I beg you to return to me." Belinda coldly pushed away the bouquet of flowers he had offered her and coolly replied, "It's too late. The bridge has been burned, and the ashes have long since scattered to the wind!"